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Wintry Vegetable Crumbles

This warming vegetarian crumble can be made and frozen ahead for a cosy dinner with friends

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Wintry Vegetable Crumbles

Why it works: Leek and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 360 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Wintry Vegetable Crumbles

Serves 6
Prep40 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

911Calories
30 gProtein
21 gFat
150 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Celeriacnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Leek + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Mustard + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together913 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sweet potato + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, sweet potato, leek, flour, thyme, butter, almond):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, sweet potato, leek, flour, thyme, butter, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.